WHO WE ARE

Looking Glass Arts is located on 15 acres of rolling farmland near the hamlet of West Fulton in Schoharie County, NY jointly owned by co-founders Marika Hughes and Tanya Kalmanovitch.

MARIKA HUGHES

Marika Hughes is a cellist, singer, songwriter, teacher, director and story-teller. A graduate of Barnard College and the Juilliard School, she teaches for Triad Trust in South Africa and Haiti, and is a Director for Young Arts. Her stories are featured on The Moth, and she has performed with Whitney Houston, Anthony Braxton, David Byrne, Henry Threadgill, Lou Reed, Adele, Idina Menzel, Taylor Mac and D’Angelo among others. She has released three albums under her name, most recently, New York Nostalgia (2016).

TANYA KALMANOVITCH

Over the past 25 years, Dr. Tanya Kalmanovitch has played a direct role in shaping a generation of artists building balanced, productive and sustainable lives. A graduate of the Juilliard School, Kalmanovitch also holds an M.Sc. in Psychology and a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology. She has spearheaded education programs and artist collectives in Canada, Afghanistan, India and Brooklyn. She is on the faculty of Boston’s New England Conservatory, an Associate Professor at The New School’s College of Performing Arts in New York City, and was named to the 2018 Grist 50 Fixers, a curated list of people working on innovative solutions to humanity’s biggest problems.